carpenter bee

Any of various solitary bees of the genus Xylocopa that bore tunnels into wood to lay their eggs.

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carpenter bee

(Animals) any large solitary bee of the genus Xylocopa and related genera that lays its eggs in tunnels bored into wood or in plant stems: family Apidae

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car′penter bee`

any of several solitary bees of the family Apidae that build nests by boring tunnels in wood.

[1830–40]

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carpenter bee - large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems

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Bumble bees (Bombus spp.), the eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica L.), several species of halictids, the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.), the mining bee (Svastra atripes Cresson), and the leaf-cutter bee (Megachile brevis Say) were found to be common visitors of partridge pea flowers (Robertson, 1890; Hardin et al., 1972; Thorp and Estes, 1975; Wolfe and Estes, 1992; Williams et at, 2015).

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Martin Wikelski, a zoologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, is testing out gluing the tiny radio-transmitters on the backs of orchid bees and the largest bee species found in the United States, the carpenter bee. He then plans to track the signals that the bees' tags emit.

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newcomer The bee on the sweet pea in David and Susan Cobley's garden and (below) a close-up of the carpenter bee

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